_ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON._
_Dear Louis,_
_To you, in memory of past symposia, when wit (your wit) flowed freer
than our old Forzato, I dedicate this little book, my pastime through
three anxious months._
_Yours,_
_JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS_
_Villa Emily, San Remo,_
_May 1884._
Wine, Women, and Song.